London County Council
John Galsworthy, 1867 - 1933, novelist and playwright, lived here, 1918 - 1933.
Galsworthy was not well enough to go to the ceremony to receive his Nobel Prize for Literature, so they brought it to him at his home here.
NW3, Admiral's Walk, Admiral's House & Grove Lodge
Londonist have a good post about this house.
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John Galsworthy
Novelist and playwright. Born Kingston Hill, Surrey. Nobel Prize for literatu...
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John Galsworthy
Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the ...
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John Galsworthy
So the churchyard must have occupied the ground between the church and the river.
In 1894 the royal personages listed at the top of the plaque as: Prince of Wales, Princess of Wales and Duke of York, were, in simpler te...
We can't explain the quotation marks on the inscription and think they are probably not significant.
Andrew Motion was commissioned to write a poem for this garden. Â It is cut (in a very interesting way) into the low concrete wall around ...
In 2018 a high fence removed the Pavlova plaque from view. But at about the time the Bowman plaque was erected in 2019 the height of the ...
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